Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Women's Work
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.22.2010
ink you're protecting him." She says he's out of his mind. "And you're a liar," he says. "I'm not leaving here until I know the truth." Standing up and getting way too close to her, he advises her to come clean while she has the chance. "If you don't, I'm gonna nail your ass to the wall." He's close enough to whisper now, which was a bad move, because she clubs him to the ground. Well, it's going to be pretty hard to convince him of her innocence now. She whips a cord around his throat and starts pulling, while he struggles weakly, never getting more than a hunk of her hair and maybe a bit of boob with the back of his hand. Although a lot of people would probably die happy if the last thing they touched in this life was one of Katee Sackhoff's girls. Finally he goes limp -- or at least his body does. Dana wipes her mouth and gets up. Well, this is going to be difficult to explain away.Splitscreen. A skyline shot of Manhattan features that helicopter, with Cole inside using his infrared scope. The terror Zodiac docks, having finally completed its interminable voyage across the East River. Hell, in this amount of time it could have circumnavigated Manhattan. At the UN, the Hassans look concerned as Kayla goes through the IRK intelligence files. That's not something they could do after the evacuation? At CTU, Hastings and Chloe watch what was still a blank big screen when last we saw it. Kiefer is helped by Walker and an EMT to an ambulance, probably out of action for the next five minutes, and he tells her, "Contact CTU. See if they picked them up coming across the river." Yeah, at this point they should have an easier time picking them up coming across the main court of Madison Square Garden.
Finally, Dana closes an access panel in the holding room wall, hiding Prady's body inside. Kind of a shame that none of the splitscreens showed her dragging his inert bulk across the floor. Her face has gone totally evil, and she dials her cell phone. Is Cole really going to want to hear what she has to tell him? "It's me," she says into the phone. "CTU is back online." "I know," Samir says on the other end. Wait, what? "The helicopter's searching the river," Samir adds. "They're getting close. You should have warned us earlier. Some of Samir's men on this side of the river are lifting the rods out of their crate and loading them into the trunk of a yellow cab. Dana says she didn't have time earlier, being busy maintaining her cover and all. "I don't know how much longer I'll be able to stay under," she warns. Man, I don't know how to feel about this at all, even days later. I'm reserving judgment until we know more, but my preliminary assessment is that this is 90% ridiculous. On the one hand, Katee Sackhoff has claimed in interviews that she's known where this has been going all along, but on the other, someone who could dispatch a parole officer like that, even one like Prady, wouldn't have had much reason to cower before Kevin the way she did earlier in the evening. Samir says, "I thought you took care of that problem." "So did I," she says. "It came back." Samir says they have to move, and will need Dana's help getting past the cordon. Dana says she'll do that. "Stand by, I'll call you in a few minutes." Suddenly I'm feeling really bad for Cole. Samir hangs up. So does Dana, then leaves the room. The yellow cab that now carries Tarin, Samir, and a whole lot of uranium drives away into the foreground along the riverbank. In the background? The U.N., of course, It's 5:00:00.